Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession . |
| 2 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 3 | First , Peter was plucked out of his normal employment by the voice of Jesus . |
| 4 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 5 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 6 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , with the queen now in France , and in view of the relative skills of dowager and regent , it was only a matter of time before Arran was eased out of office . |
| 9 | Mohammed Abdel-Halim Abu-Ghazala , a former defence minister and imperious political rival to Mr Mubarak , was eased out of his job as presidential adviser when his role in a sex-and-bribery scandal was conveniently leaked to the press . |
| 10 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 11 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 12 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 13 | What what the government , what the erm the consortium and paper 's about er , is improving the , the identification band that was hanging over of of health care , once that recipe is will get much larger consortium er , it 's much widespread of er , devotion , expertise er , er professionalism in in assessing health needs er think about one of those areas that have been saved from in West Essex over the last over the last few years and by going into a much larger group with more resources erm , there will , they will be able to actually er work er far , far more effectively in sorting out what 's actually needed . |
| 14 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 15 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 16 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 17 | The tail of Changez 's shirt was sticking out of his unbuttoned fly like a small white flag . |
| 18 | ‘ The bone was sticking out of my arm but I knew I had to carry on . |
| 19 | his leg was sticking out of er cover 's last night , that 's , tucked his leg back in got everything ? |
| 20 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 21 | Right now , after her ordeal , she was shaken out of antagonism . |
| 22 | John 's involvement with the designing of Honoré 's Ritual Night was undertaken out of friendship , keeping their earlier pact to regard each other as brother and sister . |
| 23 | Police have issued a warning after a 14-year-old Darlington boy was tricked out of his £150 chrome coloured BMX bike on Sunday afternoon . |
| 24 | The Woman was gazing out of the window , picking at the hem of the tablecloth . |
| 25 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 26 | Marc was gazing out of the window , but he could n't help overhearing her side of the conversation . |
| 27 | He felt she was stepping out of her class , in a sense . |
| 28 | the gigantic military effort was sucking out of the economy , not only surplus products , but the very means of replacing means of production and means of consumption . |
| 29 | Asshe launched himself with a roar , and Paul , his face ashen , was marched out of the study ; behind him he heard the voice of his host calling ‘ Out ! |
| 30 | A French soldier was flown out of Sarajevo after being shot in the arm . |